The Black Sea cauldron is burning oil and coming under attack.  Saudi Arabia can't get its oil out via land or sea, thanks to two wars and several bad choices.  Even the Port of Haijaira, a saving grace of a very odd set of UAE borders, is under the gun and vulnerable.  Ukraine, which gets its surveillance, target acquisition, and operational guidance from the NATO, the CIA and MI-6, has stepped up its assault on Russian refineries.  Mother Nature in the Gulf of America is also weighing in this weekend.  Are all of the random refinery explosions just bad luck, or a hidden gift to Washington?

Trump publicly complains about Zelensky's targeting "choices" – and blames Zelensky for global diesel shortages – even as everyone involved is fully aware that Washington DC controls those decisions, and facilitates their execution. Trump frequently criticizes Biden, but never for blowing up three of four Nordstream 2 gas pipelines on September 26th, 2022. In fact, he took credit for that himself, with his first term sanctions on Nord Stream construction, sanctions Biden repealed before then telling the world he would punitively "end it."  Washington seems to be managing global energy supply, transport and refining, controlling supply to drive up price and manage trade shocks.  It's a re-envisioned OPEC, as hinted at in last year's US National Security Strategy.

Trump's first term was a political pivot from Obama playing warmonger and assassin, with Hillary Clinton his American Cassandra sincerely asking, on behalf of empire, what difference the truth makes.  Trump's second term, however, brought him to heel.  The deep state/the ruling elite had learned it had nothing to fear from a fake populist; his Zionist blackmailers and pals walk ever more openly throughout American halls of power.  US wars at home and abroad grew during the autocratic Biden administration; Trump, beer held elsewhere, signed hundreds of executive orders unilaterally declaring economic or kinetic war, rejecting the autopen on moral grounds as he buried the Constitution.

While no energy insider, Trump is an eager consumer of big beautiful "strategies" to make money, and he thinks of the US till very much as his own, in a uniquely charming fascist way.  Trump "buying" USG percentages of chip manufacturers and shipbuilders and "super" intelligence is nothing new in American history.  Only his childlike delight in it surprises anyone.  Americans may worry about government-centric bubblelicious financing of AI – but the new AI companies led by modern weirdos parallel the paths of their predecessors at least as far back as 1949.  It's the natural evolution of the military industrial congressional complex that alarmed Eisenhower with its permanent preference for publicly financed wars, its contempt for the Constitution, and any limits on the power of the state.